## 2. "stop reading code" From the outside, process is sound. Focus on outcomes, without becoming precious about how they get achieved. Then, we did a Rust rewrite for better resource consumption and memory guarantees. Not a clean-room rewrite, as we gave the agents golden code and tests, intending the parallel implementations to be interchangeable, even at intermediate stages. *It was as if we had started with a prompt, "make me an insect in TS" and got back a centipede. If we followed that with, "make me an insect in Rust that does this list of things", we could end up with a caterpillar or millipede, rather than a faithful facsimile of the centipede.*